Chipmaker Renesas restarts operations at clean room hit by fire

Japanese company aims to resume Naka plant production 'within one month'

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Renesas said that its clean room for semiconductor production has been repaired following a fire.

Nikkei staff writers

NEW YORK -- Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics reopened a clean room in Ibaraki Prefecture after a fire shut it down last month, the company said Saturday.

Operations at the N3 building at Renesas' Naka factory in Ibaraki, which turns out semiconductors for cars, resumed at 9 p.m. local time on Friday, the company said in a statement.

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